Non-Koreans, especially Westerners, need to understand the history of aegyo, and how it’s NOT considered to be sexual

I get how people have wrong image about aegyo being childish, but sexual is a stretch

to me aegyo is just cute nothing sexual about it

and also korean males do aegyo as well - is that sexualised or just the female aegyo?

I admit it took me awhile to get used to it and i literally grew up in a Korean household. But now, i've gotten so used to it that it usually doesnt faze me and i actually find certain aegyo moments to be adorable and super cute, instead of cringey. I think the Izone girls come off as just naturally cutesy and i vibe to a lot of their cute songs because they sell that shit so well.

This song could be the greatest cutesy song of alltime, and the girls do a masterful job of pulling off the aegyo throughout.

You can find it cringe or whatever but calling it sexual is gross misunderstanding of another culture.

But also East Asian cultures do have a history of sexualizing women by infantilizing them. How much of that feeds into aegyo culture is a separate topic of discussion.

None the less to label aegyo inherently sexual is not nuanced enough and at the same time sexualization of women via infantilizing them and through the purity lens within East Asian cultures should also not be ignored.

Nuance people everything is about nuance. It’s not all black and white.

This is what people gets from watching too much h*ntai and JAVs that they think aegyo/kawaii is sexual

one thing I'm sure most female Koreans ( some have actually talked about it) don't like doing it as much as people think it's something that is expected from them

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I admit it took me awhile to get used to it and i literally grew up in a Korean household. But now, i've gotten so used to it that it usually doesnt faze me and i actually find certain aegyo moments to be adorable and super cute, instead of cringey. I think the Izone girls come off as just naturally cutesy and i vibe to a lot of their cute songs because they sell that shit so well.

This song could be the greatest cutesy song of alltime, and the girls do a masterful job of pulling off the aegyo throughout.

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that reminds me...

have you seen this from nako?

from what i have gathered in my years as an international kpop fan..........everyone is fucking obsessed with being this savage egocentric "queen" and everyone that goes against it is seen as weak or pretentious

and female idols doing aegyo is literally the polar opposite of that so.......yeah thats how it goes

not to mention, being confident enough to not have to be a badass 24/7 shows far higher self-esteem than insecure people who always wanna look "cold and unapproachable" like that's the best thing in the world

and the post is right in saying a lot of people WANT to sexualize idols from the start thats why the aegyo makes them feel weird

now personally it's not my thing either and chuu's personality is probably the exact opposite of mine

but

how dare

you insult chuu

she's more talented than your faves, better behaved than your faves and made recycling a popular thing in korea

That TikTok explanation was great. I’m not from an Asian country but my family was close and I often did “ aegyo” to my family. But she is right that we have to grow up and people don’t usually act like that after a certain age. It’s just weird to me to think that aegyo can be viewed as more then just cute thing.

I don’t like aegyo not because it’s “sexual “ but because for some people I find it awkward and forced. If they have natural aegyo then that’s great and it’s fun to see but with some people it doesn’t feel like that.